Italian Baroque Flashcards
Caravaggio treated both themes with extreme austerity and simplicity. He placed Paul on his
back in a pool of light, just after having been struck from his horse by a divine thunderbolt.
THE CONVERSION OF ST. PAUL – Michelangelo Merisi
da Caravaggio
Compositionally, the painting is organized around a strong
diagonal that begins at the point of the Virgin Mary’s sister
Mary Cleophas’s raised left hand, continues down through Mary
Magdalene’s slumped shoulder and the elbow of Nicodemus, to
finally rest upon the corner of the shroud within which Christ’s
dead body is about to be wrapped.
THE ENTOMBMENT OF CHRIST –Michelangelo Merisi
da Caravaggio
He set the subject of Christ
calling Matthew, the tax gatherer, in a dingy modern tax
collector’s office somewhere in a basement of Rome.
CALLING OF MATTHEW - Michelangelo Merisi
da Caravaggio
Militia Company of District II Under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq, better
known as the
NIGHT WATCH – Rembrandt
His Major contributions was the
development of an artificial and unique
technique of handling light and shadow
called the Rembrandt lighting
. Graded
transition from light to dark with
shadows of warm color
.
Rembrandt Van Rijn
The school greatest who painted
genius portraits
of the dutch and scenes of genre and religious
subjects
.
Rembrandt
is based on an Old Testament tale. In the Book of Daniel, Regent
Belshazzar of Babylon served one thousand nobles at a great feast.
BELSHAZZAR’S FEAST - Rembrandt
Militia Company of District II Under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq, better
known as the
NIGHT WATCH
The “little Dutch master” next
to Rembrandt
Jan
Vermeer
His usual subjects focuses on
women at some household
chores
Jan
Vermeer
represents a young woman in a dark shallow space,
an intimate setting that draws the viewer’s
attention exclusively on her. She wears a blue and
gold turban, the titular pearl earring, and a gold
jacket with a visible white collar beneath.
GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING - Vermeer - italian baroque
- which is considered a glorification of the great pontificate of Pope Urban VIII, a member of the Barberini family.
- work ranks as one of the masterpieces of baroque painting.
- The ceiling is an illusionistic continuation of the space of the room.
FRESCO IN THE CEILING OF GRAN SALONE OF THE PALAZZO BARBERINI
Barley Sugar columns/ columns with twisted shafts
SOLOMONIC COLUMNS
The most celebrated
Italian piazza is that
designed by _____ in
front of St. Peter’s
Basilica, Rome. It is 650
feet (198 m) wide, being
bounded on the sides
by fourfold Tuscan
colonnades.
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
most important figure in early baroque architecture.
CARLO MADERNO
Italian architect, whose work prefigured the baroque style of
the 17th century.
CARLO MADERNO
His style influenced the baroque
architects Francesco Borromini and
Gianlorenzo Bernini.
CARLO MADERNO
He completed the unfinished facade
(1614) of Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome.
CARLO MADERNO
one of the most original and important
architects in 17th-century Italy.
FRANCESCO
BORROMINI
devoted himself exclusively to architecture,
becoming virtually obsessed with finding new
and unorthodox uses of space.
FRANCESCO
BORROMINI
FAÇADE OF SAN CARLO ALLE QUATTRO FONTANE
ORATORY OF SAINT PHILLIP NERI
SANT’IVO ALLA SAPIENZA COURTYARD AND FAÇADE.
BORROMINI
a vast octagonal
building with two
domes and a pair
of picturesque bell shaped towers at the back. Dedicated to mary mother of jesus, dome- crown of mary
S. MARIA DELLA SALUTE –BALDASSARE LONGHENA
The mother
church of the
Society of jesus, a
roman catholic
religious order
known as the
Jesuits ; its façade
is the “first truly
baroque façade”
introducing the
baroque style of
architecture
CHURCH OF IL GESU – GIACOMO VIGNOLA
architectural space painted in illusionistic perspective
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